Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania for the year .. . ation, because all areunfa\oi-able to a successful ending if the efforts should be continued. The object of the anthracite mine law of Pennsylvania, as expressed in its title, wasto provide for tlie health and safe y of persons employed in and about the anthracitecoal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of propertyconnected therewith, and evidently, where there are no lives which might be saved,it would beat variance with the spirit of the law to place the lives of wor
Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania for the year .. . ation, because all areunfa\oi-able to a successful ending if the efforts should be continued. The object of the anthracite mine law of Pennsylvania, as expressed in its title, wasto provide for tlie health and safe y of persons employed in and about the anthracitecoal mines of Pennsylvania, and for the protection and preservation of propertyconnected therewith, and evidently, where there are no lives which might be saved,it would beat variance with the spirit of the law to place the lives of workmen inunwarrantable peril. For this reason, the mine inspector Ins deemed it his duty torefrain from advising continuance of work which might result in the loss of more lives,when there i. not the slightest reason to hope that lives miglit be saved by it. As longas the work was in progress, he visited the mine frequently, and saw that everypracticable precaution was taken to insvire the safety of the workmen, and the officersof the company complied with his suggestions and J J\l j\. J\, J\
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